July 17, 2008 Issue
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ObituariesSylvia Taft Lotspeich
Sylvia Taft Lotspeich, 87, formerly of Germantown, an elementary school teacher, died June 26 at the Kendal retirement community in Hanover, N.H., where she had moved six days earlier. She had been in failing health since April. Mrs. Lotspeich, an avowed Quaker, taught a combination first- and second-grade class at Germantown Friends School for 17 years until retiring in 1986. After retirement, she continued to work at the school in a parenting program. The granddaughter of President William Howard Taft, Mrs. Lotspeich was a resident of Mt. Airy for 40 years. She was the daughter of Charles Phelps Taft and his wife, Eleanor, and was born at the family’s summer home in Narragansett, R.I., but grew up in Cincinnati. She attended the Lotspeich School, a school founded by the mother of her late husband, William, whom she met at the school. Mrs. Lotspeich was a graduate of Vassar College. She later earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Rochester. Mrs. Lotspeich and her husband, a physiologist who taught at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Rochester medical schools, had become interested in Quakerism during a stay in Oxford, England, and he took the position of executive director of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia in 1967. He died the next year. Mrs. Lotspeich served on the board of the American Friends Service Committee until her death. She supported children in other countries through the Foster Parents Plan, then known as Childreach. She volunteered for the Vassar Show House each spring and was chair of the scholarship committee at Germantown Friends. She was an avid reader, golfer, and tennis player. She is survived by a daughter, Sylvia Lotspeich Greene; sons Charles and Stephen; two brothers; a sister; eight grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Germantown Friends Meeting, 47 W. Coulter St. in Philadelphia. Burial is private. Memorial donations may be made to the American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102.
John E. Zimmermann II
John E. “Ted” Zimmermann II, 86, of Jamestown, R.I., formerly of Chestnut Hill, died July 10 at Newport Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Zimmermann retired in 1980 as an account executive with Young & Rubicam, Inc., a New York advertising agency, and moved with his late wife, the former Virginia Roberts “Bobbie” Glendinning, to Rhode Island. He then began a second career in real estate, serving with two Rhode Island firms until he formally retired in 2000. Earlier, Mr. Zimmermann had been a housewares buyer for Strawbridge & Clothier department stores in Philadelphia. Born and raised in Chestnut Hill, he was a graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy. He entered Williams College, but his college career was interrupted by World War II, and he served for three-and-a-half years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, mostly in the Pacific Theatre. Mr. Zimmermann was a longtime member and past Commodore of the Conanicut Yacht Club. He was also a past member of the Clambake Club as well as an active member of the Newport Reading Room and the Cottrell Pier Association. He was a contributing member of the Naval War College Foundation and the Newport Hospital Foundation. After his retirement he served for seven years as a volunteer at Newport Hospital. He is survived by two sons, John E. Zimmermann II of Philadelphia and Robert P. Zimmermann of Jamestown R.I.; a brother, Richard Zimmermann of Saunderstown and Mystic, Conn.; a sister, Maria Spears of Calif.; three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Newport Hospital, 11 Friendship St., Newport, RI 02840; the Potter League for Animals, P.O. Box 412, Newport, RI 02840; the Jamestown Fire Dept., 50 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI 02835, or the Jamestown EMS, P.O. Box 8, Jamestown, RI 02835.
Joanna Marie McCarthy Ms. McCarthy was the daughter of the late Dr. Philip J. and Marie McCarthy and sister of the late Philip McCarthy. She is survived by a sister-in-law, two nieces and a nephew. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, at Our Mother of Consolation Church, 9 E. Chestnut Hill Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118. Interment will take place at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the above church.
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